You may want to watch it twice!

The Chicago Bulls point guard, Derrick Rose, is in a funny commercial for the NBA.

This week on cable television there has been a Monte Python tribute of sorts.  Featured has been six part documentary on the Python phenomenon with appearances by the five remaining cast members and re-runs of their movies. 

I was too old to enjoy the series and it's peculiar humor as much as I did, but I did enjoy it to the amazement and wonder of my Irish bride.  I suppose it's due to my immature personality and my enjoyment of strange and base humor.

One of my favorite bits was Eric Idle stepping out of a refrigerator and singing the Galaxy Song which he also wrote.    Feel free to sing along with Eric and me..

Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

The first generation of climate change alarmists?

Do you wonder what to do when your boss or your pastor wants to be your Facebook friend?  Are you worried that your information or pictures may not be as private as you want? The following prevention tools are available on Facebook.

1. Organize Friends in Lists
2. Customize Profile Privacy
3. Set Facebook Privacy Level of Photo Albums
4. Restrict Search Visibility
5. Control Automatic Wall Posts and News Feed Updates
6. Set Facebook Wall Privacy
7. Avoid Appearing in Advertisements
8. Protect Yourself from Friends’ Applications
9. Privacy from Your Applications
10. Quitting Facebook? Delete, Don’t Just De-Activate Your Account

For detailed instructions go to this website:
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/the-complete-guide-to-facebook-privacy/

Baxter is a therapy dog who can no longer walk.  Pulled around the hospital in a wagon, he is still able to give love and comfort to patients.  Be prepared to be touched by this video.

This short video might explain part of the expensive cost of health care.

The 2009 Ig Nobel Prizes were recently awarded at Harvard's Sanders Theatre.

PUBLIC HEALTH PRIZE: For inventing a brassiere that, in an emergency, can be quickly converted into a pair of protective face masks, one for the brassiere wearer and one to be given to some needy bystander.

VETERINARY MEDICINE PRIZE: For showing that cows who have names give more milk than cows that are nameless.

PEACE PRIZE: For determining whether it is better to be smashed over the head with a full bottle of beer or with an empty bottle.

ECONOMICS PRIZE: For demonstrating that tiny banks can be rapidly transformed into huge banks, and vice versa — and for demonstrating that similar things can be done to an entire national economy.

CHEMISTRY PRIZE: For creating diamonds from tequila.

MEDICINE PRIZE: For investigating a possible cause of arthritis of the fingers, by diligently cracking the knuckles of his left hand — but never cracking the knuckles of his right hand — every day for more than sixty (60) years.

PHYSICS PRIZE: For determining why pregnant women don't tip over.

LITERATURE PRIZE: Ireland's police service for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means "Driving License".

MATHEMATICS PRIZE: Zimbabwe’s Reserve Bank, for having his bank print bank notes with denominations ranging from one cent ($.01) to one hundred trillion dollars ($100,000,000,000,000).

BIOLOGY PRIZE: For demonstrating that kitchen refuse can be reduced more than 90% in mass by using bacteria extracted from the feces of giant pandas.

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2009

Ardipithecus Ramidus, a fossil hominid, lived 4.4 million years ago, and bears many human-like traits. The four foot tall pre-human female is thought to have weighed 120 pounds.

 ”What we found in Ethiopia at 4.4 million years ago is the closest we’ve ever come to that ancestor along our own line.” explained investigators in a recent press conference.

Scientists revealed the results of 15 years of painstaking analysis of Ardipithecus ramidus, found in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift.  Scientists, who have nicknamed her “Ardi,” believe her robust thumb musculature and flexible midcarpal (wrist) joint are perfect for text-messaging.